Veruka Salt
I know there are some airbus and 777 flights going on. But a very small number. Only a very small number of airbus and 777 crews can possibly be utilised by the company. There will always be a small percentage of so called volunteers on any fleet. But since there are only very small number of flights can happen on airbus and 777 fleets, cathay will have enough volunteers to crew them no matter what, for now.
But when it comes the 747 fleet which is the only money making operation in cathay right now, the manpower resources are being used 100%. Majority by far are extremely pissed off to be shafted the same as the rest when they have been putting up with everything and continuing their operation. Even if a small percentage of 747 pilots volunteer to be shafted even more via this new scheme/scam of even more loss of health mentally and physically, there still won't be enough to operate anywhere near enough flights on 747 fleet.
Again I repeat myself... it's the 747 pilots' good will and further sacrifice that cathay needs and has use for... they don't need nor can they use the same from airbus or 777 pilots unless and until they transfer them onto the 747 fleet. This will take way too long to make a difference in time and they all will become disgruntled and unwilling to volunteer for more abuse with no reward in short time anyway once they experience the same as the 747 crew do.
It's been mentioned in management meetings which include all other departments that they know the amount of what they have offered to pay in, compensation during those 14 quarantine days is ridiculously low and isn't sure to attract enough volunteers but that they hope there won't be enough volunteers so they can show proof to hk government their operation isn't sustainable although they've tried. So yes, even management does not want to see volunteers. There's a big political game being played behind the scene and cathay is afraid of offending the hk government.
The issue of why hasn't cathay done anything to secure it's own vaccines to vaccinate it's own work force asap has been brought up in meetings. The answer was that they were warned strongly by hk government that they won't look favorabley upon anyone sidestepping hk government vaccine program.
Last edited by VforVENDETTA; 9th Feb 2021 at 12:23.